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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS. RANDOLPH, UTAH Mexican Bandits Raise Nice Question of Ethics UV ASHINGTGN. President Wilsons cabinet split wide open on the following II question: Was Captain Matlack justified in beating the Mexican bandits out of $6,500 of the ransom for the two army aviators? With the professors of ethics who supervised military mor als during the war demobilized, there have been no authorities to turn to for a ruling, and it looks as if President Wilson, who instructed the senate committee on the difference between a moral and a legal obligation, would be called upon to decide this moral issue for the cabinet. One group of cabinet members condemns the cheating of the bandits as dishonorable, declaring it reprehensible to break a promise made even to a . . crimina . Another group contends that the breaking of a promise made under duress is justifiable. Then there is a utilitarian school of thought maintaining that the bargain to have been carried out ug implicitly because the impairment of our a on with the bandits for good faith may embarrass future repu negotiations to ransom our citizens. The .Mexican border's contribution to the controversy was that General 1 ckman was seeking ways and m ans to pay the remainder of the ransom to the bandits. The sportsman, who has a nice sense of honor in questions of this kind, will unhesitatingly say that General Dickmandisputed is right The average American will probably say: Pay the - bandits the money and then shoot " " . Yankee Saleswomen to Sell Goods to Harem Women American womens chamber of commerce, T HE kind having national and international scope, the first organization of its is trying to do these things: of American school teachers by Prevent compulsory physical examination man surgeons ; extend through the Southwest and middle West a truck v ftP j delivery of fresh vegetables, eggs, milk and other farm products, with girl drivers in charge of the trucks; popularize American lingerie and toilet articles among the sultans daughters, and popularize American shoes among the women of China. Mrs. Katherine Clemmons Gould, a founder and past president of the organization, who recently returned from a business trip to China, tells all about it First attention is to be paid to the Smith-Tovnsenate bill for physical examination of women teachers. The chamber will insist that the examiners be women. And, while they are on the subject of teachers, the women of the chamber of commerce will fight to obtain for them a higher rate of pay. "We first lfact to educate the women of China," said Mrs.' Gould, vroo formerly believed that it was sinful to permit their feet to develop naturally. In many Chinese cities we have persuaded merchants to handle American-mad- e shoes for women, and as the Chinese women gradually adopt the western custom a great field for the Ainerlcan shoe Industry will be opened. Saleswomen have been sent to Turkey with a line of toilet articles and apparel and have had tremendous success. Mere men, she explained, cannot even approach the feminine Turkish customer. . Navy Aviators Fight Unifying of Air Service HE United States of America is. pre- paring an illustrated history of the If great war which will tell exactly what happened when the Huns hit the Yanks. Inf the meantime congress has picked out a few sample fighting Yanks and awarded them the Medal of Honor, not for doing their mere duty, but for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty. Incidentally, this list could be easily doubled and trebled. Again : The names of American soldiers who wear other American, British and French decorations are legion ; six of the 12,000 Americans who fought with the Canadians were awarded the Victoria Cross, the British deCora tfon3orrespond-fn- g to the Medal of Honor. One out op 15,400 sol- dlers In action received the Medal of Honor, I would like to see the official citations' setting forth the acts of supreme courage of each of these 78 medalists printed in full In every newspaper In the land. I would like to see these citations made ' k and put into the public schools. into a I am not bloodthirsty, but I approve efficiency, even in killing Huns.' And I think such a book would be an incentive to patriotism to every American boy and girl our future citizens. As it is, there is space for little here besides the names of the medalists. Study the list and find out many interesting things for yourself. You will note, for Instance, that 21 are officers and 57 enlisted men. Nineteen paid the price with their lives. New York leads with nine; Illinois is second with seven, and California, Missouri, New Jersey, South Carolina and Tennessee share third honors with six each. Military experts have long regarded the Marines the most efficient fighting men of all the armies of the world. Nevertheless, 39 of the medals go to the men of the National Guards ; 23 to men of the selective draft organizations, 13 to regular army and marine units, 2 to the tank corps and 1 to the air service. By divisions, the Thirtieth leads with 12 medals ; it is the National Gaurd organization of the Caro-lina- s and Tennessee. Second honors go to the Eighty-nint- h division, which is the selective draft unit of western Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, South Dakota and New Mexico. The third or National Guard Division of is the Thirty-thir- d Illinois. Fourth honors go to the famous Second division of regulars, which includes the marines, while fifth place is shared by the two New York and the Seventy-seventdivisions, the Twenty-sevent- J text-boo- are against the proposal to concentrate the air service of the NAVY aviators navy, postofllce and coast and forest fire patrols under a single executive, probably a new cabinet member. Differing kinds of service, with special qualifications for each, make it necessary to keep the branches sepa-ratthey believe. Cnpt. G. W. Steele, Jr., of the tJ. S. S. Shawmut shows the attitude of the nuvf flyers in the form of some manuscript prepared by him as commander of the work of the air fleet of the Atlantic squadron, department of navy aeronautics. Captain Steele and the Shawmut are now at Newport, R. I. Previous to its assignment there the boat was a mine sweeper on the Irish sea, but returned to American waters in time to handle the testing of the navy airships prior to their transatlantic flights, and . later in Lisbon, where they landed. "There are reports, says Captain Steele, that the proposed congressional legislation to consolidate the air services will provide for a separate cabinet officer as head of the department of aviation, and others that say the head of the aviation department will merely be a chief, such as the various bureaus of the army and navy have. Either of these plans, or any other plans which take aviation for the navy out of complete control of the navy department will mean the service will suffer, and such legislation should be opposed. A navy flyer has to know how to navigate, either from the flimsy cockpit of an airship or from the bridge of a vessel. He has to know how to do navy scouting, bombing and torpedoing, coast patrol work, and finally the spotting Sergeant Ellis, a regular, put in a whole day far of shots and regulation of navy fire. in advance of the first wave of his company reHe killed nests single-handeCaptain Steels conclusion is that the army aviator cannot know the ducing machine-gumachine ten guns and difficulties of the navy flying game and It takes him years to learn his own. the of captured enemy many and more than 50 prisoners. Lieutenant Woodfill, also a regular, reduced nests, .killing at Purchaser Model Town three separate machine-gu- n Uncle Sam Wants least 12 of the enemy with rifle and pistol and one is in the market to buy a town the war department has one finally two with a pick.elghteen-year-olvolunteer Lieutenant Luke, an IFforANY sale. In advertising this fact to the public the government said in an 18 enemy aircraft In 17 days. destroyed aviator, official announcement, among other things: The war department is offering Wounded and forced to make a landing, he killed for sale the town of Nitro, W. Va., a attacking Germans with his pistol until he fell. industrial community emcomplete Sergeant York was originally a sincere conscibracing 737 manufacturing buildings, entious objector. He was convinced from the Bible housing accommodations frr 20,000 are the peacemakers. So he went blessed that persons and the utilities and civic make peace. He killed 24 of the to over help that constitute the conwith rifle and pistol, put a whole machine-gu- n enemy venient s of a modern city. battalion out of business and marched 132 "Nitro, built by the government at prisoners back to the American lines. a cost of approximately $70,000,000, is Every possible kind of courage was shown by the site of the pecond largest smokethese medalists. Roberts, when his tank slid into less powder plant in the world. The a flooded shell hole, deliberately gave his life to lids must cover not only the powder save his gunner. Blackwell gave his life in a volplant and the other industrial units unteer attempt to get through heavy fire with a which were erected to prepare the Ingredients essential to powder making, but message. Whittlesey is the Go to hell officer of the civic community as well. fame, who would not surrender.' Loman The industrial community of Nitro stretches, for more than four miles Argonne wears also the Victoria Cross, Legion of Honor, the Ulong the east bank of the Kanawha river. Here are to be found a sulphuric Medaille Millitaire and the Croix de Guerre. . d acid plant in seven units, the capacity of which is 700 tons per day of 24 hours ; Dont forget the cartoon in which the a nitric acid plant of four units, the capacity of which is 300 tons per day ; a hero and the potential hero who never got to the cotton purification plant of standard pulp mill design in four units, the capacity firing-lin- e are each saying You lucky guy!" And of which is 225 tons per day; a nitrating, colloidlng, and drying plant; 16 ship- dont forget the potential heroes. Their hearts ping bouses, or magazines, segregated for the storage of powder; etc. were broken. Set upon the foothills, overlooking the industrial area with its bristlinf The Complete List smokestacks, stands the civic community more than 1,500 furnished portable B., sergeant, Company C, 119th Joseph Adklnson, houses, homes for the workmen who will make the manufacturing units pro Infantry, 30th division, Atoka, Tenn. ducing institutions; 75 permanently constructed executive residences, hotels Allex, Jake, corporal, Company H, 131st Infantry, boarding houses, dormitories, clubhouse, general and special stores, cafeterias 33d division, Chicago. etc. and moving pictures houses, etc., etc., Allworth, Edward 8., captain, 60th infantry, 5th ' Step up, ladles and gentlemen. How much are we offered? 11x18100, Crawford, Wash. ej . h. h . n a for a , d one-arme- , ' - Anderson, Johannes S., sergeant, Company B, infantry, 33d division, Chicago. Barger, Charles D., private, first class, Company L, 354th infantry, 89th division. Stotts City, Mo. Barkeley, David B., private, Company A, 356th Infantry, 89th division, San Antonio, Tex. Deceased. Barkeley, John L., private, first class, Company K, 4th infantry, 3d division, Blairstown, Mo. Bart, Frank J., private, Company C, 9th Infantry, 2d division, Newark, N. J. . Blackwell, Robert L., private, 119th infantry, 30th division, Hurles Mills, N. C. Deceased. Call, Donald M., second lieutenant, tank corps, Larchmont, N. Y. Chiles, Marcellus' H., captain, 356th Infantry, 89th division, Denver, Colo. Deceased. 1st en-- , Colyer, Wilbur E., sergeant, Company A, Deceased. I. L. Ozone Park, 1st division, gineers, 115th inCostln, Henry G., private, Company H, Va. Deceased. Charles, 29th division, Cape fantry, maCukela, Louis, first lieutenant, 5th regiment rines, 2d division, Minneapolis, Minn. Dlllboy, George, private, first class, Company H, 103d infantry, 26th division, Boston, Mass. Dozier, James C., first lieutennnt. Company G, 118th infantry, 30th division, Rock Hill, S. C. Eggers, Alan Louis, sergeant, machine gun company, 107th infantry, 27th division, Summit, N. J. InEllis, Michael B., sergeant, Company C, 28th 111. St. East Louis, 1st division. fantry, Forrest Arthur J., sergeant. Company D, 354th infantry, 89th division, Hannibal, Mo. Foster, Gary Evans, sergeant, Company F, 118th infantry, 30th division, Inman, S. C. Funk, Jesse N., private, first class, 354th infantry, 89th division, Calhan, Colo. Furlong, Richard A., first lieutenant, 353d 89th division, Detroit, Mich. Gaffney, Frank, private, first class, 108th infantry, 27th division, Lockport, N. Y. Gregory, Earl D., sergeant, headquarters company, 116th infantry, 29th division, Chase City, Va. Gilmpertz, Sydney G., first sergeant, Company E, 132d infantry, 33d division. New York city. Hall, Thomas Lee, sergeant, Company G, 118th infantry, 30th division, Fort Hill, S. C. Deceased. Hatter, M. Waldo, sergeant, Company B, 356th infantry, 89th division, Neosho, Mo. Hays, George Price, 'first lieutenant, 10th field ' artillery, 3d division, Okarchee, Okla. Heriot, James D., corporal, Company I, 118th infantry, 30th division. Providence, S. C. Deceased. Hill, Ralyn, corporal, Company H, 129th infantry, 83d division, Oregon, 111. Hilton, Richmond H., sergeant, Company H, ' 118th infantry, 30th division, Westville, S. C. Hoffman, Charles F., gunnery sergeant, 5th regiment marines, 2d division, Brooklyn, N. Y. Johnston, Harold I., sergeant, Company A, 356th Infantry, 89th division, Denver, Colo. Karnes, James E., sergeant, Company D, 117th infantry, 30th division, Knoxville, Tenn. . Kaufman, Benjamin, first sergeant. Company K, 308th Infantry, 77th division, Brooklyn, N. Y. Katz, Philip C., sergeant, Company C, 363d infantry, 91st division, San Francisco, Cal. Kocak,. MateJ, sergeant, Company C, 5th regiment marines, 2d division, Albany, N. Y. Kelly, John Joseph, private, 6th regiment marines, 2d division, Chicago. Latham, John Cridland,' sergeant, machine gun company, 107th Infantry, 27th division, Westmoreland. England. Lemert, Milo, first sergeant. Company H, 119th Infantry, 30th division, Grossville, Tenn. . Loman, Berger, private. Company H, 132d Infantry, 33d division, Chicago. r Luke, Frank, Jr., lieutenant, 27th aero squadron Phoenix. Ariz. Deceased. 132d Mallon, George H., captain, 132d Infantry, 334 division, Kansas City, Mo. Manning, Sidney E., corporal. Company C, 167tl. infantry, 42d division, Floraaton, Ala. Mestrovilch, James '!., sergeant. Company C, 11th infantry, 28th division, Fresno, Cal. Miles, L. Wardlaw, captain, 308th infantry, 77th . division, Princeton, N. J. Oscar 361st Miller, F., major, infantry, 91st division, Los Angeles, Cal. Deceased. McMurtry George G., captain 308th Infantry, 77th ' division, New York city. Neibaur, Thomas C., private, Company M, 167th infantry, 42d division, Sumner City, Idaho. OShea, Thomas E., corporal, machine gun company, 107th infantry, 27th division. Summit, N. J. ' Deceased. Peck, Archie A., private. Company A, 307th infantry. 77th division, Hornell, N. Y. Perkins,-MichaJ., private first class, Company D, 101st infantry, 26th division, Boston, Mass. Pike, Emery J., lieutenant colonel, division mar chine gun officer, 82nd division, Des Moines, la. Deceased. Pope, Thomas A., corporal, Company E, 131st infantry, 33d division, Chicago. Pruitt, John H., corporal, 7Sth company, 6th regiment of marines, 2d division, Phoenix, Ariz. Deceased. Regan, Patrick, second lieutenant, 115th infantry, 29th division, Los Angeles, Cal. Robb, George S., first lieutenant, 369th infantry, 93d division, Salina, Kan. Roberts, Gerald W., corporal, tank corps, San Francisco, Cal. Deceased. Sampler, Samuel H.,' sergeant, Company M, 142d infantry. 30tli division, Mangum, Okla. Sandlin, Willie, private, Company A, 132d Infantry. 33d division, Hayden, Ky. , 312th Sawelson, William, sergeant, Company infantry, 78th division, Harrison, N. J. Deceased. Seibert, Floyd M., sergeant, Company F, 364th infantry, 91st division. Salinas, Cal. ; Sk nker, Alexander R., captain, 138th infantry, 35th division, St. Louis, Mo. Deceased. , Slack, Clayton K., private, Company E, 124th infantry, 31st division, Lampson, Wis. Smith, Frederick E., lieutenant colonel, 308th infantry, 77th division, Portland Ore. Deceased. Talley, Edward R., sergeant, Company L, 117th infantry, 30th division. Russellville, Tenn. Turner, Harold T., corporal. Company F,142d Infantry, 36th division, Seminole, Okla. Deceased.. Turner, William S., first lieutenant, 105th Infantry, 27th division, Dorchester, Mass. Van- - lersal, Louis, sergeant, Company M, 9th infantry, 2d division, Newark, N. J. Villepigue, John C., corporal, Company M, 118th Infantry, 30th division, .Camden, N. Reider, sergeant, Company A, 105th Infantry, 27th division, Noreland, Norway. Ward, Calvin, private, Company D, 117th Infantry, 30th division, Morristown, Tenn. West, Chester H.( first sergeant, Company D, 363d infantry, 91st division, Idaho Falls, Idaho. . Whittlesey, Charles W., lieutenant colonel, 308th Infantry 77th division, Pittsfield, Mass. Wickersham, J. Hunter, second lieutenant, 3534 infantry, 89th division, Denver, Colo. Deceased. yold, Nels, private, Company I, 138th Infantry, 35th division, McIntosh, Minn. Deceased. Woodfill, Samuel, first lieutenant (now captainV 64th Infantry, 65th division, Fort Thomas, Ky. . 'York, Alvin C., sergeant, Company G, 328th i fantry, 82d division, Pall Mall, Tenn. el . : (CoDvriKht, 1819, Western Newspaper Union) |